By Luke Thomas October 31, 2008 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was interrupted during a press conference earlier today and asked why she refuses to debate her opponents in the race for the eighth congressional district. Pelosi was speaking to media at the law offices of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold to urge California voters to [...]
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By Terry Canaan October 31, 2008 Let’s take a look at the economic situation. Never mind the naysayers, the gloom-and-doomers, the glass-half-empty types, some of us are doing just fine. If you look hard enough and long enough, you can find good, simple, hard-working Americans who are managing to get along. Good people, with good, [...]
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By Stephen Lendman October 31, 2008 From too much of a good thing. From the 1980s and 1990s excesses. From the longest ever US bull market. Heavily manipulated to keep it levitating. From August 1982 to January 2000. An illusory reprieve from October 2002 to October 2007. Fluctuations aside, all lost in the past 12 [...]
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By Luke Thomas October 30, 2008 San Francisco Bay Guardian publisher Bruce Brugmann yesterday blasted Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) for its efforts to buy the November election and took aim at the San Francisco Chronicle for its “complicity” in providing cover to the utility company. “Why does a major metropolitan newspaper not cover [...]
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Photo by Luke Thomas By Marc Salomon October 29, 2008 While the Democratic Party has followed Barack Obama and embarked in an historic shift away from DLC Clintonism, San Francisco’s local franchise, retrograde as always, seems determined to carry Hillary’s triangulation torch while throwing in a dash of McCain/Palin economics [...]
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From California Sierra Club October 29, 2008 SACRAMENTO – Some Bay Area representatives voted sustainably, while others voted against California’s air, water and wild places, Sierra Club California’s annual Legislative Report Card finds. Sierra Club California tracked the votes of California’s Assemblymembers and Senators, recording each Earth-friendly vote as a positive score. From toxics prevention [...]
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 San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom File photo by Luke Thomas By Milkcluber October 28, 2008 Republican presidential John McCain got a surprising endorsement for his economic recovery strategy last week. It came when San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom copied McCain’s plan for a San Francisco version combining tax breaks for business, layoffs of city [...]
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